When he marries Nunoe, he hardly makes a living for an entire month, but he just started what will become his popular masterpiece: GeGeGe no Kitarô (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎), the following of a kamishibai and manga series called Hakaba no Kitarô (Kitarou of the Graveyard), which he adapts to younger readers. He starts in 1957 to realize manga and kamishibai, a kind of street theater using drawn supports, on the themes of war and Yôkai, more or less monstrous creatures of the Japanese folklore, he got interested in since his childhood in Sakaiminato in the Tottori prefecture.
Indeed, born in 1922 near Osaka, he was conscripted in the army at 20 and sent on the New-Britain island, in Papua-New Guinea, where he lost his left arm during a bombing raid. An amputation all the more handicapping since he was lefty! He tries then to forget the war by integrating a local tribe, but he is finally sent back to Japan.Īfter the war, he makes different jobs, while training to write and draw with his right hand. In fact he has, at this time, nothing of the good party the high society's families are looking for, but he is maybe less reluctant regarding the age of the potential fiancées. Shigeru is not yet the famous author who everybody knows (or should discover, in the following part of this article -p).
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